Last time I was home (golf's big on PEI), my cousin Pat (Mech Engineer), brother-in-law Jeff (business guy) and I (programmer) were trying to think how we could automatically track our golf game we had just got back from. We were trying to figure out how we could put some kind of tracking in the golf balls, gps, or a camera system tracking color coded golf balls, etc.

I just saw John McGuire the founder of GAME GOLF present at On Deck West sports & tech conference while I was here to see Aaron present Blue. It's pretty smart, and so much simpler than what we were thinking. The golfer's got a device hooked up to his belt (which I assume is paired to your phone), when your about to hit the ball you tap your club (which has a NFC "tag" on it) against the device on your belt, then the next time you're up to hit you do the same thing, now the system knows from your GPS where you're at on the course and how far your last shot was, all without taking out your phone on the course. GOLF GAME will be available in Apple Stores soon for $200-$300.

GAME GOLF, backed by professional golfers Graeme McDowell and Lee Westwood, captures the golfers round and allows for a visual representation of the round and calculates a variety of statistics to give the golfer insights into their game such as club usage, fairways hit, greens in regulation, distances, etc. GAME GOLF also enables the golfer to view their game, and create a social media component where the golfer can share their round, compare to others, and compete with friends or colleagues across the country or world.

Gravity-powered lights for developing countries http://t.co/5YCIs6V1 #innovation (via @beaulebens)

An inspirational video from quirky.com my buddy Nefaur tweeted about , their doing some pretty neat stuff over there.

See how Corning's highly engineered glass, with companion technologies, will help shape our world. Take a journey with our narrator for details on these technologies, answers to your questions, and to learn about what's possible -- and what's not -- in the near future.

Watch how future technology will help people make better use of their time, focus their attention, and strengthen relationships while getting things done at work, home, and on the go. (Release: 2011)

What if everything ran on gas? Then again, what if everything didn't? Visit GasPoweredEverything.com to create a personalized profile of your life on gas.

Preparing Watson for the Jeopardy stage posed a unique challenge to the team: how to represent a system of 90 servers and hundreds of custom algorithms for the viewing public. IBM, in collaboration with a team of partners, created a representation of this computing system for the viewing audience; from its stage presence to its voice. Who knew the spinning sphere had so much meaning?! Check out another one of my favorite Watson videos Building Watson. Tomorrow, Febuary 14, 2011, America will witness Watson compete on Jeopardy on TV against two of the show's biggest winners Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter.

IBM, we've all heard the name, we know they are a massive computer company, many of us grew up with an IBM computer in our household, but how have they been around so long? Innovation. The following film features 100 people, who each present the IBM achievement recorded in the year they were born. It offering a whirlwind history of the company. Makes me proud to have worked at IBM. Check out the other great IBM Centennial Film: They Were There as well.

David Ferrucci of IBM discusses the DeepQA Project; the technology and architecture behind IBM's newest technological innovation, the question answering and natural language processing system, Watson.

This animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA's Benjamin Franklin award.

This is the result of TAT's Open Innovation experiment. It is an experience video showing the future of screen technology with stretchable screens, transparent screens and e-ink displays, to name a few.

http://google.com/instant | Meet the new way to search. Google Instant shows results as you type.

HP released a new video showing off its upcoming "iPad killer"--the Slate tablet PC. The video is reminiscent of Verizon's "Droid Does" campaign highlighting all of the capabilities of the Android-based Droid that the Apple iPhone can't deliver. In a mere 30 seconds HP manages to demonstrate that its tablet is--in a nutshell--everything Apple's iPad isn't.

RIT Center for Student Innovation - Grand Opening Ceremony Keynote Address by Steve Shapiro, CEO of Digsby

Space Chair Project

Feeling like the world is becoming less friendly? Social theorist Jonathan Zittrain begs to difffer. The Internet, he suggests, is made up of millions of disinterested acts of kindness, curiosity and trust.